The Complete List of Things You Must Do Everyday in 2018

It’s the New Year! The plague of our age is lists of 10 Things You Must Do Daily For Your Health and 7 Things You Must Do Every Morning to Boost Your Productivity. These are things like “drink eight glasses of water” (myth), “make a To Do list for the day” (perhaps).

I have grown so tired of the cult of productivity that seems to fill the blogosphere that I just can’t bear it anymore. Personally, I think there is a lot to be said for wasting time, for not getting things done, for being unoccupied. Not so long ago, the way you could tell that someone was rich was that he or she had lots of time to waste. Now it seems that the mark of success is being too busy to enjoy life.

That is jacked.

So what is my complete list of things you must do every day in 2018?

Breathe.

Wait, were you expecting more than one item?

Unless you have some medical condition that requires daily medication or something like that, there is no second must-do for 2018 or any other year.

Despite the advice that you must drink eight glasses of water every day, in fact, unless you’re out in extremely hot weather every single day of 2018, you can go a day without water. It’s not fun, nor recommended, but the simple fact is that you don’t need to drink every day.

Eating? Well, you can go more than a day without doing that. In fact, there is growing evidence that it’s healthy to skip eating for a day or two every once in a while.

Now we get into a whole list of things that you do NOT need to do every day. In fact, if you are doing these every day, in some cases it is definitely hurting you. In others, you should do it most days, but relax. Missing a day will not hurt you. The list of things not to do every day is too long to even get much of a start on, but here’s a start:

Read the news, listen to the news, watch the news

Watch TV

Check email

Check Facebook, Twitter, Instagram, Snapchat, or anything at all on the internet